The Cannonball House in Saint Michaels,

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, is a historic house built in the early 19th century. The

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house is a side-hall double-parlor design on a corner lot, built for shipbuilder William Merchant. It is historically notable for an 1813 event in the

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in which the

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bombarded Saint Michaels, leaving a cannonball embedded in the house. Cannonball House was listed on the

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in 1983.

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*, including photo dated 1980, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Talbot County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1810 Saint Michaels, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland {{TalbotCountyMD-NRHP-stub